The crisis can and must be eliminated through decisive, coordinated work by the forestry committees, provided all institutions unconditionally fulfill their obligations. By decrees of the Council of Labor and Defence of October 6 and 22, work supplying railways with fuel has been equated with military-operational assignments. I propose that the provincial executive committees take urgent measures to ensure: 1) that the provincial forestry committees, railway forestry committees, and district forestry committees fulfill the planned assignments of the Chief Forestry Committee for the procurement and transport of firewood; 2) that the provincial labour committees conduct persistently and systematically the labour-animal transport obligation in accordance with the demands of the forestry committees; 3) that the labour and animal transport force engaged in procurement, transport, sawing and loading of firewood not be diverted to any other work; 4) that the provincial food committees supply the forestry committees according to the directives of the People's Commissariat of Food with complete food and fodder provisions; 5) that the for-

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